Animals
| Lizards, little ones, middle-sized ones
and chuckwallas. Deer. Deer mice. An occasional stray
cow that swam down through Cataract Canyon or came in at Hite. Beaver.
Lynx; more common than you might think. Bats at dusk. Scorpions:
most common is the small, but very poisonous, Centuroides sculpturatus,
formerly thought to live only in the Sonoran Desert and the Grand Canyon.
Birds of many sizes and kinds. Insects of many more kinds: dragonflies,
biting flies, horse flies, ordinary flies, biting black flies (“noseeums”),
mosquitoes, tarantula hawks (they lay their eggs in the bodies of tarantulas–which
are there, too, but they aren’t insects), incredibly colorful beetles,
some very large. Fish in the waters; big carp and tiny minnows–they
like to nibble on the hair on your legs when you sit in a pond to cool
off. And, very, very rarely, a rattlesnake.
Plus people… ...drifting down a calm river, through a spectacular and beautiful canyon, with side canyons unrivaled by any other in the world,…a thousand years of Anasazi, Spanish, Mormon, and mining history...these things all combined in a single place, a place that provides one of the most beautiful experiences in the world. ...These are the closing words of our original (1962) Glen Canyon slide show, made to show the Sierra Club and other river runners what we had not been able to entice them with when we met them on the river. |
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